User:Zakgreant/pairdoc/2010-11-17

Sam Reedy and Zak Greant

General talk about docs and dev issues.

Notes

Reedy's been focused on:

• Code review tool
• API work
  • embedded docs out of sync with MediaWiki.org / Zak will get these in sync

Embedded docs need to be cleaned up:

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25408

How do we update things cleanly? WS changes, formatting fixes,

• focus on a one file minimum cleanup commits - go for bigger commits
• these will be big enough to blow out the embedded diff tool
• compare opcode outputs from before and after? use that to programatically prove that nothing meaningful has changed

Get help from reedy on untangling code

When something's deprecated add recommendations and examples

Make sure to link up all key resources -

Database schemas are out-of-date / inconsistently formatted

• use scripts to generate schema for dbs?
• perhaps check redirects/create possibly common redirects (mw_TableName)
• ask Erik to see if he sees people searching with prefixes

Ask Erik for general stats on searches

Doxygen for extensions - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25978